Sheryl Crow featuring Justin Timberlake “Sign Your Name (Terence Trent D’Arby Cover)”
Sheryl Crow and Justin Timberlake semi-duetting?…On a cover of Terence Trent D’Arby’s sexy 1988 smash “Sign Your Name”?…That’s done in the style of ’70′s-era Al Green? No doubt we’re sold, if only because the younger generation deserve to know about the artist formerly known as D’Arby (now Sananda Maitreya), a late-80′s breakout superstar who at one-time was showered with straight-faced praise of being the “new Prince” and “next Michael Jackson”.
Beyond that though, this tune (found on Crow’s new album, the vintage soul-themed 100 Miles from Memphis) is a sheer delight from start to finish, with Sheryl and a background vox-supporting Timberlake proving to be a far better-than-imagined white soul team-up, and its production work handling a spot-on re-creation of the lush Memphis R&B magic Al Green and producer Willie Mitchell reigned with throughout the 1970′s.
Wouldn’t mind if Justin opted to wrap his trademark falsetto on this old-school sound as well for his next project (Hint, hint).
100 Miles from Memphis, also featuring a cover of The Jackson 5′s “I Want You Back”, drops July 20th.
Sheryl Crow (feat. Justin Timberlake) – Sign Your Name (Terence Trent D’Arby Cover)
good song but drums? the heat gets a bit repetetive in parts
sooo tired of hearing pop am radio remakes of great songs-will Sheryl Crow and Lenny Kravitz never stop with their cheesey remakes-Trents version is much better even being 24 years old-besides I thought these people were “so creative” why do they never have any fresh original songs-they aren’t Roy Oribson or Xtina-so their remakes are basically a waste of listening time-I wonder how many idiots will credit Sheryl Crow for writing this song now-if you redo a great song -you need to be sure version is a change up or better-sorry Sheryl this just made me go buy Terrence Trent’s version and shun yet another retread pop commercially hyped Sheryl Crow CD-besides why is Crow always trying to come off so country, folky(1000 miles from memphis?)-she was raised a spoiled rich princess in a Manhattan Apartment and blindly backs wild horse freaks because the one thing her doting parents didn’t get was a horse and now she feels sooo deprived about it-all this while wearing a cowhide jacket-I suppose she would think it unthinkable to wear a horse leather jacket-but cows -kill them all-she never wanted a pet cow